Do Good and Don’t Be Suckered

“There
is something in us that refuses to be treated as less than human. We are created
for freedom.” – Archbishop
Desmond Tutu

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There is so much hate
in this current world and so much deception. Yesterday, I responded to an
over-sized card I got in the mail from the phone giant Cyberlink inviting me, in
effect, to change my satellite TV provider from DISH, which I presently have
bundled with them, back to DIREC, which I had bundled with back before their own
dramatic price rise. I was invited to lock in the lowest price for three years.
So, I called and got this people-friendly guy who told me right off that if I
really wanted the lowest price, then
the three-year stable-price deal was out the window. But he could save me $35 a
month (big money for me, by the way) for the first year, and then I’d be free to
scrum month-by-month for continued lower rates via whatever promotion they had
on offer at the time.

He also explained he could
throw in a $150 Visa card (bearing what interest he neglected to say), and could
waive the supposedly usual deposit and give me $50 off the first payment, with
no connection fee. I took his word on it, because no choice and it sounded
substantially better than what I had, so I gave him my “physical address”, SS #,
blood type, etc., and he locked me in and assigned me a new registration number,
and then he told me I had to give him
two months payment in advance immediately plus rent on the box. Stipulations,
reservations, and numbers flying in every direction! And then, when I told him –
well, I won’t tell you what I told
him – and that the deal was off, he informed me I was already on the hook
for it and cast me into what turned out to be permanent purgatory hold to try
and explain the whole sequence to a different operative and cancel if I could
remember enough or any of it – doubtful. Lucy and the football
again!

I know that their
agents, or (excuse me!) “independent
contractors” are rewarded with so close to zilch by these humongous interlocking
conglomerates of interlocking conglomerates, most or all owned by or through
Vanguard as most likely a mere sideline to central banking and issuing
earth-shaking directives and playing paymaster to countless millions, if not
billions, of working stiffs globally, while posing as the American and beyond
economy, that the minions all feel that they have to pass along as much of the
misery, scripted chicanery, and petty disinformation as they can just to survive
it themselves. And they are probably correct in that bitterly-inculcated
assumption. (It’s a lot like, “if the WTC
asbestos is going to cost us billions to extricate, sure, we’ll conspire.”)
All of a seamless piece – this niggling deceit, state violence and boundless
intrigue, shaped fiction as news, financial manipulation, theft of popular and
national control.

So, with this, one
wonders, just mightn’t it be better to go back to locally-based phone companies
with equipment and connections that actually work and TV programming that’s all
paid for by advertising – which we have to endure being thoroughly brainwashed
by anyway? And, what’s it to us if
the interlocking directorates don’t get their tidy per diems? Let them live on
crackers and cheese off their piddling mercenaries, bombs, and our beggaring
interest and debt! I’m beginning to think that “free enterprise” ain’t really
all that free!

A recent theme is that
the Internet can rescue humankind from government and establishment lies and
deceptions. Wish that it were true! First, the percentage of people who search
for the truth of things online must be in the low single digits at best. And
even these oddest of folks (i.e., we)
are quite effectively neutralized up to now by demonization, humiliation,
threats, dire threats, and more effective and more rapid-fire lies, try as we
might.

Also, nothing, and I mean nothing! on the Internet is
authoritative at all in the sense that Cronkite and Huntley/Brinkley once were.
Even today, all of the authority that there is is on the other side. What do we
have that anyone should believe us? Grit and truth alone. Probably, not even
time.

But no standard for
believability exists, so we in the Truth Community all end up suspecting each
other of shill-dom, troll-dom, or possibly something worse if we don’t agree on
absolutely everything. Hardly inspiring credence!

So, let’s instead all
try living by the tried, true and for the most part abandoned standard of
absolute ethical/moral purity, so that people will have no cause to want to
disbelieve us. We must literally be
the society we seek to birth. Or else, we can cast no aspersions. No more ad hominems or unsubstantiated charges
based on little more than 360-degree suspicion (a character flaw usually stuck
with a less-flattering name). Stick to the verified and verifiable facts and
extend courtesy and withhold final judgment even where doing so may not be
deserved. Going forward, we must stand out for forbearance, not
quick-triggered-ness, because there’s more than we can handle that we can prove.

In discourse, never lose sight of justice; but we
must strive our utmost to resemble the extraordinary forgivers of the church in
Charleston. And we will probably lose some points in so doing, but gradually
gain a whole lot more, I believe, than we ever dreamed.

One more motto we can
proudly place on our banners for all to see and repeat – “DO GOOD AND DON’T BE
SUCKERED!”